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did during the trial, that that she killed her husband. i believe that she got by with murder. the unanswered question to me would be why the jury decided what they decided. after the trial and the not guilty verdict, jean long moved out of the state and is trying to put her life back together again. she s still grieving. she s finally being able to work through her emotions. the remnants of jim and jean long s house and workshop are still standing, a reminder that forensic science isn t only a tool to convict the guilty, but to protect the innocent, as well. if i could keep this from happening to another family, and so other people wouldn t have to go through what we went through. what we need in our system of justice is for the state to have
in a panic, jean said she ran from the workshop into their home to call the fire department. at the fire scene, investigators found the remnants of the kerosene heater. but the plastic fuel can was found outside the workshop door in perfect condition, inconsistent with jean s story. and major mike overbey believed that the position of jim s body was inconsistent with most fire victims. it appeared his legs were outstretched and his arms were above his head. it appeared to me the way someone would be positioned if they had been dragged into a particular spot or carried. that was the first thing that i noticed. that they were not in a fetal-type position that you see in fires. in addition, overbey found visual evidence of pour patterns
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in a surprising discovery, gas chromatography of the residue inside the heater s fuel tank identified gasoline and not kerosene. it takes more heat to ignite kerosene. gasoline ignites at very low temperatures. the difference in flammability between gasoline and kerosene is tremendous. and i worked in a lot of fires where people misfuel kerosene heaters with gasoline and end up having big fires. jean said they were using the heater outside before they moved it indoors. since a gallon of gasoline is equivalent to 20 sticks of dynamite, when jim poured it into the hot fuel tank, it caused an explosion, just as jean described. the residue of gasoline inside that smudge pot was the physical evidence. and mrs. long s story was the eyewitness evidence. it fits together.